Pours a murky dark brown with a 1 inch foamy dark khaki head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell fairly mild and is of malt, brown sugar, and some herbal hop aromas. Taste is of malt, brown sugar, slight caramel, and some herbal and citrus zest hop flavors. There is a medium amount of bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a low level of carbonation with an almost flat mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer flavor wise but average in all other ways.

A powerhouse in alcohol and flavors. Attractive dark amber with an orange tint. Aroma is a floral bouquet with some roasted barley. Think of this as a hoppy Barley Wine if it doesn't live up to expectations as a DIPA (it's obviously not an IS). Interesting nutty flavor, more like pine nuts. Butterscotch heated up with jalapeños.

Sugar and hoppy blast picks you off at first. But the long strange trip this takes you on is great. Textbook carbonation makes for a spritzy mouthfeel. Warm, rich, and malty on the tongue. Tastes better as you sip. Bitterness is just one more attraction along the way. Just enough sharpness, plus the hot alcohol gives it an edge. Malty sweetness just goes on and on in a cloud of richness.

22 oz bottle from Sprouts Market in Pacific Beach. Check this out, it's an audacious beer if you're only making a couple, but it does show some cojones.

Clear, light copper and amber with a moderately sized off-white head that leaves small dots of lace down the glass, but it lacks significant stick.

This is not a good smelling beer especially for a Southern California DIPA. It's sweet and malty, first and foremost, with a mild earthy hop character, but there are also lots of fusel alcohol aromas as well. Even though this beer is big at 10% ABV, the amount of alcohol emanating from this beer is too much to excuse.

The flavor is just as bad as the aroma. The beer is fairly bitter and simple, with malty sweetness and mild hop presence, and again, there's burning, rubbing alcohol-like alcohol harshness. No good.

This is a reasonably good beer, not complex and a bit harsh, but enjoyable enough with some well-rounded character.

Orange, slightly hazy, very big pale tan head slowly shrinks.

Aroma is meaty raisin, wet bread dough, candied orange, pine bark.

Taste is sweet-spicy, boozy, spicy raisiny sweetness with grapefruit, orange ring, pine-sap bitterness, spicy and a bit sharp in finish, but aftertatse ends up raisiny sweetness with toasty white bread. Feel is full and creamy, slightly syrupy. Sweet up front, bitter finish, then sweeter aftertaste. It's boozy all throughout, a bit too much so, and a bit harsh and sharp, but only slightly and not enough to fully detract from otherwise fairly enjoyable character.

Bomber purchased on a whim as I was unfamiliar with the beer. As it turns out I'm also unfamiliar with the brewery. Apparently a newer contract brewer based here in San Diego County.

Cracked open and poured into a globe glass, this beer pours a reasonably clear golden copper and sports an inch or so of slightly off white foam. Offers good retention and lacing as the beer settles.

Light caramel malt aroma with a hint of earthy hops. Hop profile is rather weak. Not bad per se, just not really there. Improves a bit with warming but remains a bit under the radar.

Flavor is decent and offers a light bitterness on the finish. Rather nondescript yet not negative either. ABV is rather hidden for me and the sweetness is by no means cloying. Some hop spice reveals itself in time.

Neutral on the feel as the beer is smooth and drinkable, particularly for its heft. In the end, the aroma expands nicely with warming though the taste lacks the bite I would expect for the style.

App: Initially, it looks beautiful, however, it does not keep it's charm. Head retention is minimal, with average body to start. Poor lacing. The color is very nice. It is a cloudy apricot and very dense. A one finger retention, for two minutes.. Head color is very light tan with an apricot tinge to it.

Nose: A little malty sweetness at first with biscuits or graham crackers in the middle.

Taste: Syrupy at first which breaks way to a balanced carbonation. Excellent carbonation. The syrup fades away and you are left with a resinous, piney taste. Perhaps a tiny bit of citrus in the middle. Not much going on here, but well balanced. Lots of syrup and hop oils, but not a whole lot more.

Notes: Mind the 10% alcohol on this one. Not a good representation of the style, but I must say it was very well balanced .